After the girls came Freddie as Uncle Sam, in the goat wagon led by Bert (for fear the goat might run away), then fifteen boys, all with drums orfifes or some other things with which to make a noise.
Such drumming and such tooting of fifes and horns!
Drums were beating, trumpets blowing, fifes shrieking--there was no mistaking the purpose of the English ship.
Fifes shrilled, and the rub-a-dub-dub of a dozen drums set the air in a tremor.
Fifes outshrilled the roar of rapids, and stately figures in gold braid {127} and plumed hats glided over the waters of the Richelieu among the painted forests of the frost-tinted maples.
Outside, the vesper bells ring, the fireworks explode in the square, and the fifes play marching up and down the streets with the tambourines.
Then the drums rattled and the fifes struck up a lively march air, and the cadets marched around the grounds, disposed of their rifles, and entered the mess hall of the institution.
Soon the drums gave a preliminary rattle, and then the shrill fifes struck up into a lively marching air, and one company after another passed out of the Hall grounds and on to the road leading to Haven Point.
He thought he heard shouts in German, the galloping of horses, a distant sound of tattoo and whistle such as the battalions of the invaders made with their fifes and drums.
The drums and fifes by this time were halted on the color-line, and the last part of tattoo was sounding.
Jauntily the gray and white column went striding away across the Plain, drums and fifes playing merrily.
Drums and fifes burst instantly into the liveliest quickstep.
Shall I ever forget the tunes played by the shrill fifes and the buglehorns which disturbed that night!
The fifes played alone, and the regiments one after another marched past, and I saw(11) them melt away through the great gate at the end of the Square.
Farther up the valley a distant drum rattles, and then, shrill and piercing, with hoarse, rolling accompaniment, the fifes of some infantry regiment burst into the lively trills of the reveille.
Presently the fifes and rums played tattoo, and the boys began preparations for turning in.
It was a Sunday School picnic, just back from a day at the seashore; and the air which the fifes and drums were playing with a vigour that made the windows rattle was "Work, for the Night is Coming!
We saw three large red flags heading a military procession, which marched out of the camp with drums and fifes playing.
Most of us turned out and like schoolboys followed the drums and fifes as they played the troops to their camping-ground.
And in the chariots were none but men and women dancing and drinking and playing most joyously on fifes and drums and bagpipes and shawms.
The drums and fifes and bagpipes struck up once more and the cavalcade moved off without any let or hindrance.
And where once in the days of our liberty Sounded the violas, screamed the fifes and the bagpipes, Now there is silence and death.
And then suddenly the drums began to beat, the fifes screamed, and the soldiers fell in again.
The shouts rise above the screamingfifes and rumbling drums.
Look at the gay caps and bonnets in yonder balcony; and hark to the fifes and fiddles, accelerating the sharp trot to a full gallop!
The fifes struck up "The girl I left behind me," the men stamped round the capstan with a cheerful, steady step, and in a very short time the cable was nearly up and doun.
The fifes were combs with tissue paper; the drums were tabourets and the sewing-table.
On they came, the fifes and flutes ringing out with a weird clearness in the hushed mountain air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fifes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
